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chestnut-brown when denuded, but in fresh specimens covered with 

 grey tomentum and with dense golden yellow pubescence of the 

 same shade as that on the posterior border of thorax. Abdomen 

 reddish brown, appearing darker with dense short black pubes- 

 cence, on the third and fourth segments are wide bands of bright 

 golden yellow pubescence, which also appears on the sides of the 

 first two segments, and often as a narrow fringe on the posterior 

 border of the sixth ; under side with the yellow bands narrower but 

 present on most of the segments, the second segment with white 

 pubescence. Legs black, the knees, fore tibiae except at their apices, 

 and the middle and posterior tibiae wholly, whitish, with white 

 hairs, the fore coxae covered with grey tomentum and with white 

 hairs, the others less distinctly so, the pubescence on femora thick, 

 black ; the fore tibiae are curved but hardly incrassate. Wings 

 tinged with brown on the fore border as far as the third or fourth 

 longitudinal vein, clearer at the apex, veins, stigma and costal 

 border yellowish, short appendix present. 



Tabanus bicinctus, ? , n. sp. 

 (PI xiii, fig. 5.) 



Type 9 and another from N. Kanara, S. W. India (Bell) ; 

 others from Pahang, Perak and Kuala Lumpur , Federated Malay 

 vStates (Pratt, Durham) 



A handsome black species with white-haired scutellum, white- 

 haired bands on the third and fourth segments, whitish tibiae, and 

 wings tinged brown on the fore border, distinguished from Tabanus 

 leucocnematus , Bigot, by its colouring and by its more heavily 

 fringed black femora. Length : type 18 mm., others 10 — 18 mm. 



Face covered with whitish tomentum and with long white hairs. 

 A dark brow^n band extends between the eyes and the base of the 

 antennae, with dark pubescence. Beard white ; thick. Palpi stout, 

 ending in a point, j^ellowish but appearing grey on the outside, 

 being thickly covered with grey tomentum and with short black 

 pubescence, a few white hairs are visible chiefly at the base, and 

 longer ones below. Antennae reddish yellow, the first two joints 

 with black pubescence, the third joint with very small tooth crowned 

 with a few black hairs, apex of joint darker. Subcallus shining, 

 dark brown. Forehead about six times as long as it is broad, about 

 one-third narrower anteriorly, covered with grey tomentum, the 

 two calli the same colour as the subcallus, the frontal callus 

 irregularly square, separated from the subcallus by a narrow inter- 

 val, convex, furrowed in the middle, almost reaching the eyes ; the 

 median callus is oblong and narrower, on each side of it and at the 

 vertex the forehead is brownish. 



Thorax black , covered with an anterior band of grey tomentum 

 and short whitish pubescence, and with a heavy white fringe of 

 hairs on its posterior border; on the posterior dark part of dorsum 

 the pubescence is black and dense. Scutellum covered with whitish 



